After Virginia Bill Passes, Compact to Eliminate Electoral College is Now 82 Percent Complete
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
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Summary
Last week, Virginia became the 18th state to pass a bill that will effectively eliminate the Electoral College.
Unbeknownst to most people, there is a serious effort in this country to make the presidential election a simple popular vote. Even though most people have never heard about this effort, it’s actually already 82 percent complete. Meaning the Electoral College is truly at risk of getting completely scrapped in the near future.
The ironic thing about this is that it may not necessarily be unconstitutional. Instead, this method is using a loophole in the way that the constitution set up our federalist system.
This effort is officially called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (otherwise known as the NPVIC)—it’s an agreement between the states that join to give their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote at the national level.
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, Virginia became the 18th state in the nation to pass a bill which will effectively |
| 0:06.0 | eliminate the electoral college. You can in fact see the governor of Virginia right there |
| 0:09.9 | signing that new bill into law with much glee and excitement. Unbeknownst to most people, there is a |
| 0:15.7 | serious effort in this country to make the presidential election, the federal presidential election, |
| 0:20.3 | a matter of just a |
| 0:21.8 | simple popular vote. And even though most people have never heard about this effort, it's actually |
| 0:26.8 | already 82% complete, meaning the electoral college is truly at risk of getting completely scrapped |
| 0:33.7 | in the very near future. And the ironic thing about it is that it's not necessarily unconstitutional. |
| 0:39.6 | Instead, this method is using a loophole in the way that the Constitution set up our dual federalist |
| 0:45.6 | system. This effort, it's officially called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, |
| 0:51.3 | otherwise known as the NPVIC. And what it basically is, it's an agreement between the states that join this compact |
| 0:58.5 | to give their collective electoral votes to whichever candidate happens to win the popular vote at the national level. |
| 1:05.0 | You see, up on your screen right there is a map of the electoral college votes across the U.S. |
| 1:09.0 | And this map is the most recent map based on the |
| 1:11.4 | 2020 census. Every state has an electoral college vote equal to the number of representatives that |
| 1:16.5 | they have in Congress. And so, for instance, if you take the state of Texas, they have two senators, |
| 1:21.6 | as well as 38 members of the House. And therefore, they have 40 votes in total in the electoral |
| 1:26.4 | college. Now, the way that the electoral college has evolved over the years is kind of a long story in and of itself. |
| 1:32.4 | But relevant to our discussion today, it's worth highlighting that every individual state gets to decide for themselves, |
| 1:38.6 | i.e. the state legislature in that state gets to decide how to apportion their votes, |
| 1:43.4 | meaning the state legislatures in each state get to decide how to apportion their votes, meaning the state legislatures in each state |
| 1:45.9 | get to decide how to divvy out their electoral college votes. And so at this moment, the way it works in |
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